Caroline woke up beside a snoring Bonnie, her eyes were closed tightly and her breathing was rapid. She seemed to be holding herself, her hands clenched at her sides, sweat pouring down her face. Bonnie thrashed against Caroline, effectively waking herself up in the process.
"Sorry." Bonnie barely mumbles, sitting up in bed, wiping the sleep out of her eyes, "Bad dream, bad day, bad everything." Bonnie groans, putting her face back into her pillow, "So unfair." She grumbles.
Caroline rolls her eyes and stands up, "There is no way you're going to go all depress-o on me. Get your ass up Bonnie, retail shopping will do you wonders."
Bonnie picks her face off of the pillow, "Retail shopping is more of your thing, not mine." Bonnie offers her a dry smile, "Have fun." She drops her head back down.
"No!" Caroline hoists Bonnie out of bed and drags her to the bathroom, "Now take a shower and get ready, I'll come pick you up at three."
"Do I have a choice?" Bonnie grumbles while Caroline turns on the water.
"Actually, no you don't." Caroline smiles at her, "See you soon."
When Caroline arrives home, she hopes into the shower immediately. She puts the water on full blast as she feels the hot water sting yet soothe her pale skin, after shampooing and conditioning, she steps out of the shower and walks into her room with a robe secured around her.
"Been a while, love." He says from her comfy arm chair near the window, looking up from his sketch book.
Caroline's not sure if she'll ever get used to the idea of dating the enemy.
"Bonnie needed me." Caroline quickly supplies, "Abby was going off the deep end."
"The best of us fall." Klaus says, his pencil scratching eagerly at the paper, "Have you seen Abby since last night?"
Caroline freezes for a moment, "I actually haven't - why? What do you know?" Caroline goes over to him, sitting on the edge of her bed facing him.
Klaus grimaces, "I noted Abby leaving town this morning."
"Why didn't you stop her?" Caroline screeches, standing up, "Oh Bonnie-"
Klaus wrinkles his nose, "I didn't stop her because I've done it once before."
Caroline takes a sharp breath, "Yeah, and your point?"
"She needed to learn the lesson."
"Huh, I thought she would have learned it the first time she left Bonnie." Caroline snarls, she knows she isn't being fair to Klaus, it's not like he packed Abby's suitcase for her. Caroline's more mad at Abby then she is at Klaus, but she's infuriated that he didn't stop her.
Klaus smudges his drawing with the tip of his thumb, "Love, people will always leave you. Bonnie just needs to learn the lesson too, it'll hurt less when it happens again." He says matter-of-factly.
Caroline runs a hand through her drying hair, "So are you going to leave me again?" She knows she absolutely twisted the situation to him.
Klaus stops smudging to look up at her, "Never again." He says simply, "Trying to leave you was possibly the hardest thing I've ever done."
Caroline flushes, looking away from him, "So why'd you do it then?"
There is a silence stretching in between them - Caroline could feel it, the forbidden topic of Stefan Salvatore was bound to come up.
Stefan Salvatore was like Harry Potter's version of Voldemort. Saying his name was like contraband around Klaus, that's why she hadn't spoken yet. That's why the silence stayed quiet as he slowly stood up, tossing his sketchpad on her bed and leaving, she could feel her heart do a painful twist when he passed her.
On the bed was a picture of Abby, tears streaming down her face with blood dripping from her lips. Beside it was a picture of Caroline, her eyes were also watery and lips coated in blood.
Under it, in Klaus's flowery handwriting.
We are the monsters we strive not to be.
Caroline swallows hard, picking up the sketchpad and flinging it across the room, tears falling from her eyes. Her and Abby were alike, she couldn't hide it, but the big difference was: Caroline never left.
Three o'clock struck, and like promised - Caroline was honking her horn impatiently at Bonnie's house.
"I'm coming!" She heard the witch shout with a scuffle of footsteps around her house and drawers being shut. Finally she appears in the doorway, running toward the car and opening the passenger side.
"About time." Caroline puts the car into drive and begins to drive towards downtown, "How are you?" Her voice is strained.
Bonnie eyes Caroline, "Lets not talk about me, lets talk about you."
Caroline groans, "Do we have to?"
"Hm, Caroline bypassing a chance to talk about herself.. are you sick?" Bonnie jokingly reaches for Caroline's forehead.
"I wish I was." Caroline says as she pulls into the parking lot of the mall, "I got into a fight with Klaus."
Bonnie raises her eyebrow at Caroline, "I still need to get used to the idea that you and Klaus are a item." She breathes, fiddling with her seat belt.
"That makes two of us." Caroline replies, opening her car door and slamming it. Bonnie mimics her, stepping carefully out of the car.
"Are you going to tell me why you guys were fighting or.." Bonnie prompts as they walk towards the entrance.
Caroline offers Bonnie a dry smile, "I don't want to ruin your day." Caroline quickly says, her mind flashing back to the drawing of her and Abby. Plus, Caroline really didn't want to think about that drawing anymore than she already had.
"But you've been here for me, I need to return the favor, I owe you." Bonnie groans as they open the door and walk into the busy bustling mall.
"I'm sure a new blazer would definitely be payment." Caroline winks at Bonnie as they head for a small clothing shop.
Bonnie and Caroline hook arms as they sort through the clothing when someone clears their throat behind them. Bonnie and Caroline whirl to see Rebekah staring at them with a hand on her hip.
"Rebekah." Caroline says, raising a eyebrow, "Um, hi."
Rebekah sighs, "I need someone to give me a opinion on a dress. Considering that you two are the only people I can stand in this shop at the moment, you will do."
Caroline tilts her head to the side, "Sorry, I don't give egotistical bitches my opinion on dresses." Caroline says, quirking a eyebrow at her and putting her hand on her side.
"That's no way to talk to a Original." Rebekah says, then suddenly Caroline's throat is clenched in her small hand, "Learn manners, little girl. You won't last a day with a tongue as sharp as yours around me."
Caroline strains against her grip but finally settles into it, "Maybe that's the point."
"Now now Rebekah." A voice says, followed by a smirk and a man, "You never were a afternoon person."
"Kol." Rebekah says coldly, her hand falling from Caroline's throat to turn to her brother, "What did I do wrong that entitles you to being near me?"
"Oh dear sister." Kol says, "My dear strumpet, don't get your panties in a bunch. I merely just wanted to say hello."
"To me or the witch?" Rebekah challenges, her eyes barely glazing over Bonnie.
Bonnie flushes and fiddles with the strap on her bag instead of having to look at Kol.
Kol grins, his eyes lighting up with delight, "If I revealed my ulterior motives then they wouldn't be so secret would they, 'Bekah?"
Rebekah smirks at him, planting a hand on her hip, "I suppose not, brother. You haven't seen Nik have you?"
"Shouldn't you be asking Caroline that instead of me?" Kol says with a grin.
Caroline turns a bright red and shoves past the two siblings, grabbing Bonnie's hand, "As terrible as this has been, me and Bonnie have some therapy shopping to do - and we so don't need Originals messing up our therapy time."
Kol smiles at Bonnie, looking her up and down, "Have fun, love."
Bonnie's mouth is slightly ajar, breathing out a soft, "Thanks." She says before hurrying out of the store.
Caroline arrives home with many bags in tow, each of them saying different things, like one of the bags say Chanel, her Mother eyes this but Caroline just bounds upstairs. She can hear him up there, she can hear his pencil scratching against the paper eagerly. Almost angrily.
She opens the door and he doesn't even look up, she knows that he knows that she's there. Caroline quickly puts her bags into her closet before facing him. She notices a trickle of blood on his lips.
Caroline goes into her bathroom and hands him a towel, "You forgot a spot." She says huskily.
Klaus looks up at her, ignoring the towel and instead licking the last spot of blood off his lips, "No need, love."
She doesn't know why, but she feels disappointed.
"I saw that you liked my drawing." He nods towards the trash can, where the picture of her and Abby lay crumpled in a ball.
"It was uncalled for." Caroline says, defending herself, "I'm not like that."
"We're all like that, love." Klaus says, drawing darker lines into his drawing, "It's just that I've accepted what I am." He says.
Caroline runs a hand through her hair, "It doesn't mean we have to be monsters though."
Klaus chuckles, "I'm sure you read. Do you really think vampires are portrayed as superheros? We're not Edward Cullen's love, we're Draculas."
"But we don't have to be that way though." Caroline insists, sitting on the edge of her bed facing him, "Don't you remember what Elijah said about your Mother wanting to kill you?"
Klaus's eyes flash up for a moment, "I haven't been able to forget." He says softly, looking back down at his drawing, "But I'm a monster, love, and I'm staying this way. I won't change for you or for anyone. I won't suddenly have a fetish for bunnies over humans."
Caroline reaches into her drawer, pulling out a blood bag, "There are safer alternatives." She insists, holding out the bag to him, "Alternatives that don't hurt anyone."
Klaus's eyes are suddenly a red, "Did you ever consider for a moment, that I enjoy killing?"
Caroline's hand lingers for a moment before setting the blood bag beside her, "Of course I have."
Klaus grins, the tip of his fang prominent against his lip, "I, unlike you, don't avoid my temptations."
"I do it to keep everyone safe." Caroline snaps, "Unlike you, I don't want to be someone's horror story."
"But it's much funner this way."
Caroline stands up, frustrated with the Hybrid, "Do you even think about who you hurt? Or do you just do it anyways?" Caroline goes over to her trash can, picking up the drawing and un-crumpling it and pointing at Abby, "What about Bonnie, Klaus?"
"What about her?" Klaus asks, bored.
"Do you think it hurt her when Abby left town?"
"Surely so. But Bonnie Bennett is hardly my problem." Klaus just shakes his head, setting his drawing aside.
"She's my best friend. It hurts me to see her hurting. It sucks even more because you could have helped her, sure, you barely know her, but no one deserves to be left twice." Caroline looks down at the drawing, blinking away tears, "Get out." She says softly.
Klaus gets up, "If that's the way you want to leave this, fine." He says, bumping his shoulder with hers when he walks past her.
Caroline's eyes flash to her feet, she can't look at him, she takes the drawing in her hands and rips it up, tossing it back into the trash can.
She can almost feel Klaus's hurt from behind her as he leaves the house.
Now you're just somebody that I used to know.
Bonnie is frantic when talking to Caroline, her crying is tearing Caroline apart as Caroline runs over there in vampire speed.
Bonnie is holding a letter in her hands, still talking on the phone to Caroline when Caroline gets there.
Caroline wraps her arms around Bonnie, she turns around - startled yet thankful for Caroline's vampire speed, eagerly wrapping herself around Caroline, her body shaking with sobs.
"Shhh.." Caroline soothes, but her mind is somewhere else, it's on Klaus, he had left his sketch pad at her house.
It was a picture of Abby, she was raising a hand up as if to say goodbye, words written on the bottom.
Please let me go, she'll forget me sooner.
Suddenly, someone has knocked Caroline to the ground. A small yelp escapes her lips before everything goes dark for Caroline Forbes.
She can hear Bonnie's screaming.
"I told you I'm a monster love." A voice whispers into her ear.
Bonnie's screaming is suddenly cut off.
Caroline Forbes disappears from the world.